"What he did is he took the battery cable out so someone wouldn't come and take his already stolen vehicle," said Matthews.

Some students who are Honda owners are not surprised by the thefts

"As soon as I bought the car, I knew that those cars are pretty easy to steal," said BC student Juan Chavez, who owns a 1990 Honda.

Jared Aguilar owns a 1996 Honda Accord, which he said was stolen last year a few blocks away from BC.

It worries me again that all this is going on," said Aguilar, who now has an alarm on his car.

"I feel somewhat comfortable about having an alarm, but people could still get around that," he said.

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